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9. Fundamental Pricing of Utility Tokens 2025, with V. Danos and J. Prat. Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.00566
8. La maternité controversée sur le terrain du football : Une analyse croisée entre France et Angleterre 2024, with M.-S. Abouna, J. Forsyth, S. Brodziak, A. Blackett, Nouvelles Questions Féministes, Vol.43, N.2.
7. Gender Differences in Burnout Syndrome and Perceptions of Gender Equality in Research Organisations 2022, Vol. 5 No. 1: 5th International Conference on Gender Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34190/icgr.5.1.88 [DATA]
6. Marriage Strategy Among the European Nobility 2020, with J. Pouyet and T. Tregouet. Explorations in Economic History, Volume 75, January. Replication files are available at OpenICPSR. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2019.101303
5. Welfare and Trade Elasticity with Multinational Production 2020, with P. Bombarda. The World Economy, Volume 43, Issue 2, pp. 388-411, February. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12850
4. Taxation and Female Labor Supply in Italy 2015, with F. Colonna, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 4:5 (19 March 2015). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40173-015-0030-0
Winner of the Prize in Memory of Maria Concetta Chiuri 2011, SIEP
(Selected coverage: La Voce; InGenere; Espresso; NoiseFromAmerika; Linkiesta)
3. Unemployment Duration of Spouses: Evidence From France 2014, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Vol. 28(4), pp. 399-429, December. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/labr.12042
2. Until Death Do Us Part? The Economics of Short-Term Marriage Contracts 2014, with G. Ponthiere, Population Review, Vol. 53(1), pp.19-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/prv.2014.0001
(Selected coverage: PSE "5 articles...en 5 minutes"; Libération; The Toronto Star)
1. Divorce Laws and Divorce Rate in the U.S. 2013, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 13(1), pages 39, August. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2012-0149
Les femmes, le football et autres sports de ballon - Enjeux, défis, bonnes pratiques et nouvelles représentations 2024, Sous la direction de Marie-Stéphanie Abouna, Sylvie Brodziak et Stefania Marcassa, Genre(s) et création, Éditions Le Manuscrit, Paris (ISBN 978-2-304-05616-7), 2024.
"HANDBOOK FOR SUSTAINABLE GEPS", 2023, Edited by Tindara Addabbo and Giovanna Badalassi. Authors: Tindara Addabbo, Giovanna Badalassi, Ulpiana Kocollari, Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins, Silvia Donoso López, Aleksandra Drecun, Stefania Marcassa, Valeria Naciti, Corinna Pusch, Ingrid Shuli. (LeTSGEPs). ISBN : 978-88-89427-06-4 [English version, Version française] English: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10849023 - French: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10987760
Tokens and ICOs: A Review of the Economic Literature 2021, with A. Canidio, V. Danos, and J. Prat, in Principles of Blockchain Systems, Antonio Fernández Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Maurice Herlihy, and Maria Potop-Butucaru, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science, August 2021, Vol. 9, No. 2, Pages 1-213 (https://doi.org/10.2200/S01102ED1V01Y202105CSL014)
Other Publications
"SYNTHÈSE DES TRAVAUX DU CONSORTIUM INTERNATIONAL ÉGALITÉ FEMMES - HOMMES / 2023", Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie.
F. Colonna, S. Marcassa, "Se il fisco scoraggia il lavoro delle donne" , Prospettive Sociali e Sanitarie, Anno XLII, Maggio 2012, p.29-30.
Migration, Social Change, and the Early Decline in the United States Fertility 2025. This study examines the impact of internal migration on the fertility transition in 19th-century United States. The findings reveal that fertility declined more rapidly in counties with higher rates of outward migration, particularly toward the western frontier. To estimate the causal effect of migration on fertility decline, I use the number of acres granted to American war veterans by Congress between 1847 and 1855 as an instrumental variable. Migration, combined with limited remittance technology, encouraged parents to prioritize precautionary savings. This shift contributed to the decline of multigenerational family structures and fostered smaller family size norms. Winner of the Ezio Tarantelli Best Paper Prize 2025
Towards Gender Equity in Academia: Strategies and Tools for Universities 2025, with V. Naciti. Despite increased awareness of the role of biases in academia, and a growing number of institutional initiatives to address inequality, transformative change remains slow and uneven across countries. Gender stereotypes significantly contribute to the leaky pipeline, negatively affecting women’s recruitment, career progression, and wages. This study investigates the intersection of implicit biases among university staff and the strategies outlined in Gender Equality Plans (GEPs), shedding light on how these plans drive meaningful institutional change. Based on data collected from three research-performing organizations in Europe, the study integrates results from a gender-career Implicit Association Test (IAT) and a detailed survey including demographics, professional roles, work-life balance, social values, and leisure activities. To reduce sample selection bias, the survey's structure and the order of questions were fully randomized.
Shock Propagation in Decentralized Lending Networks: Evidence from the Compound Protocol 2025, with N. Tovanich, S. Kitzler, C. Makridis, and J. Prat. We study the propagation of financial shocks in decentralized finance (DeFi) using a novel dataset from Compound, a prominent DeFi lending application on Ethereum. Unlike traditional interbank networks, Compound exhibits a bipartite structure in which users lend and borrow via lending pools implemented as smart contracts. We construct daily balance sheets for users and pools from January 2020 to June 2024, model the liability network, and apply the DebtRank algorithm to simulate distress cascades following tokenspecific price shocks. Our findings show that the network topology is the most robust predictor of contagion, outperforming standard financial indicators. We further show that the structure of systemic risk varies over time and across asset types, with stablecoin pools exhibiting more concentrated and persistent vulnerabilities than crypto-asset pools. These results underscore the need for topology-aware risk monitoring in algorithmic credit systems.
The Hedonic Price of the British Noble Husbands (with Marc Goni)
Taxation, Labor Force Participation, and Child Penalty in Italy
Intra-Firm Trade, Multinational Production, and Welfare 2017, with P. Bombarda. THEMA Working Paper 2017-15. We propose a model where firms have access to competing market strategies: export and multinational production. Due to technological appropriability issues, foreign affiliates import an intermediate input from the home headquarters. The presence of export and multinational production alters the standard results obtained for welfare in heterogeneous firm models, through a double truncation of the productivity distribution. The model is then calibrated to analyze counterfactual scenarios. We find that welfare gains from intra-firm trade range from 0.3 to 7 percent depending on country characteristics.